Linux maintainer rejects patches from sanctioned Russian Baikal Electronics

balozi wrote: post #3

> We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization. Is the discomfort based on technical, or legal, or moral/political reasoning?

Yes.

Re: Linux maintainer rejects patches from sanctioned Russian Baikal Electronics

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Post by arp242 » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

pphysch wrote: post #2

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Baikal is kind of a political project to start with.

They were already sanctioned by the Obama admin because they were "associated with military procurement activities, including the development of computer systems for military end-users and the production of computers for nuclear research". That was rescinded a year later. Now it's back for reasons that should be obvious.

You can ignore what's going on in the world and say that open source is completely detached from that, or you can say you're not comfterable going out of your way to include support for Russian processors for Russian arms. Clearly there is some point at which you can't ignore politics: few people would claim IBM did nothing wrong selling the Nazi regime equipment.

Re: Linux maintainer rejects patches from sanctioned Russian Baikal Electronics

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Post by vfclists » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

arp242 wrote: post #9

pphysch wrote: post #2

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Baikal is kind of a political project to start with. They were already sanctioned by the Obama admin because they were "associated with military procurement activities, including the development of computer systems for military end-users and the production of computers for nuclear research". That was rescinded a year later. Now it's back for reasons that should be obvious. You can ignore what's going on in the world…

Don't any of the major US companies involved with Linux have huge contracts with the DoD?

Didn't IBM the current owner of Redhat supply equipment to the Nazis which was used to document and track Jews?

By the way who are the "We" in "We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization."?